News Hub: Goolsbee Latest Obama Economist to Leave

6/7/2011 10:30AM

Austan Goolsbee announced he will leave the White House as President Obama's Council of Economic Advisers chairman. He'll return to the University of Chicago as a professor. WSJ's Jonathan Weisman reports.

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